Jaikoo - Ruby, Merb, Datamapper & Web Applications

About me

Outline

I’m in my late 20’s, a father of two lovely girls and a husband to a wonderful wife. I started programming when I was six years old but only decided to go into software engineering as a profession after a freak pole dancing incident. Damn that greasy pole.

What am I currently doing

Well after a career that involved developing everything from online trading applications to content management systems I started my own company a few years ago that specialised in Agile development with Ruby and Ruby on Rails (Agile Evolved, later New Bamboo) before leaving to do what I’ve always wanted… Work in a start up rather than just for a start up. You can now find me at vzaar coding Ruby and doing all kinds of cool stuff with video.

What turns me on

Pole dancing (rubs my back). Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Merb, DataMapper, CouchDB, StrokeDB, Erlang, Javascript, JQuery, OO software design, statistics, Apple products.

Strange facts

i) I once navigated a tank onto a golf course. The grass was too neat dammit.
ii) Up until the age of 21 I had a very successful full contact martial arts career.
iii) I was an amateur body builder up until a few years ago. (I’m more of a cake eater these days…muhahaha|)
iv) I speak quite a few languages. Non of them very well.

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Twitter

While I love what they've done, it feels like 'Edge Case' software http://www.themattinator.com -
@MoTalking Is it in shades of green;?;) -
my mac's crawling a long this morning -
testing out javarebel's auto class reloading -
Show me the whale! Show me the whale! Show me the whale! -
@alanb :D -
Sun still pushing their cert bollox spam at me. I'm a Sun cert engineer and architect from the old days. Utter useless crap. -
Loving the rain.. First time in days I haven't sat trying to claw my eyes out with hay fever -
@alanb yep, strange but true:) -
@alanb most Brother printers have excellent Mac support, plus they're cheap and very reliable compared to my old samsung -
WTF?! I ran out of noodles! -
Maven appears not to suck as much as it used to -
This is bloody cool! http://tinyurl.com/55h3oc -
@fuzzy_orange ha! dude it's not like we're at college when we used to do 5 day non stop coding binges.. Sleep more and get more work done;) -
functional programming for a disfunctional guy -
@MoTalking Yeh, house prices down 6.3% from what they were a year ago -
@fuzzy_orange Get yourself checked out mate.. Sounds like a health problem. -
@jamieparkins Don't tease... I'm making a mockup of the iPhone 2.0 from milk bottles as I speak.. -
Office move occurs on new iPhone day! -
@fearoffish good luck matey -

About

Online journal of Jonathan Conway a twenty something technologist, entrepreneur, husband, daddy of two, oh and lead architect at vzaar. Currently residing in London, UK.

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